Advice for Practitioners on Unused Digital Asset Basis Safe Harbor
A digital asset tax expert and an IRS official advised practitioners to consider their options presented in recent guidance that …
Circuit Court Revives Crypto Reporting Legal Challenge
In partially reversing a lower court’s dismissal of multiple constitutional challenges to the amended Code section requiring the disclosure of …
Crypto Sector Slow to Adopt New Accounting Rules Despite Years of Advocacy
Despite years of pressing the FASB to develop a standard, the crypto sector has not been scrambling to adopt new …
Deloitte’s Jonathan Cutler Weighs in on New Digital Asset Reporting Form
Deloitte Washington National Tax Senior Manager Jonathan Cutler, a global information reporting expert, shared with Checkpoint his impressions of the …
Senate Stablecoin Bill Would Override SEC Crypto Accounting Bulletin
A bipartisan stablecoin framework rolled out on April 17, 2024, by Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) would …
Resolution Nixing SEC Crypto Accounting Guidance Clears House Committee
The House Financial Services Committee on February 29, 2024, advanced a bipartisan measure to eliminate a 2022 SEC staff accounting …
Sales Tax on NFTs Poised to Heat Up in 2024
To date, only a handful of states have provided guidance specific to the sales and use tax treatment of non-fungible …
FASB Publishes its First Direct Accounting Standard for Reporting Crypto Assets
The FASB on December 13, 2023, issued its first direct accounting and disclosure standard on crypto assets to provide guidance …
Gensler Defends SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin on Crypto After GAO Report Deems it a Rule
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler once again defended the controversial Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) No. 121 on …
Crypto Tax Pros Debrief IRS Digital Asset Reg Hearing
Following a public rulemaking hearing on proposed regs implementing digital asset broker provisions of the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act, TaxBit’s Vice President of …